The plaintiffs include 101 people who survived the attack or had relatives who were killed.
NEW YORK - The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency was sued on June 24 by dozens of Israelis who accused it of aiding and abettingIn a complaint filed with the US District Court in Manhattan, the plaintiffs said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East spent more than a decade helping Hamas build what they called the"terror infrastructure" and personnel needed for the attack.
UNRWA's commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, and several current and former agency officials are also defendants.While many of their accusations have been made by Israel's government, the plaintiffs want UNRWA held liable for allegedly funneling more than US$1 billion from a Manhattan bank account to benefit Hamas, including for weapons, explosives and ammunition.
They also said the attack was"foreseeable" to the defendants, regardless of whether they knew the specifics. In April, Norway called on international donors to resume funding UNRWA, after a UN-authorized independent review found that Israel had not provided evidence supporting its accusations that hundreds of UNRWA staff were members of terrorist groups."If we do not push back, other UN entities and international organizations will be next, further undermining our multilateral system," Lazzarini said at a meeting of the agency's advisory commission in Geneva.
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